To Tie a Turban
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I have not found any period descriptions of how to tie a turban. ... How I Tie My Turban. 1. Put on a turban cap. This is not essential but it makes it ...
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To Tie a TurbanPage 1Page 285To Tie a TurbanI usually wear a turban at events and from time to time someone asks me to show him how to tieit. Hence this article.Sources of InformationI have not found any period descriptions of how to tie a turban. The method I describe below isbased on indirect evidence of several sorts. There are quite a lot of surviving pictures from theIslamic world showing people wearing turbans (Arab Painting Richard EttinghausenMacmillan London 1977 is one good source). In addition there is some evidencearchaeological and literary on the dimensions of the turban sashthe piece of cloth that you windaround your head to make a turbanand there are surviving caps that might well be intended togo under turbans. For more information on both see the article on Islamic clothing elsewhere inthis volume.Finally there are modern people who wear turbans. When I began trying to figure out how toreproduce the effect shown in period pictures my first step was to go to a Sikh friend and askhim to show me how he tied his turban. The result looked quite different from what I had seen inthe picturesbut it turned out that a slight modification of what he was doing fixed that.Figure 1: Turban capFigure 2: Startingthe tailFigure 3: Starting first circleHow I Tie My Turban1. Put on a turban cap. This is not essential but it makes it less likely that stray wisps of hair willshow when you are finished. figure 1]2. Take a strip of cloth about 20" wide and 15 yards longI usually use light cotton. Lay it overyour head back to front with the end about eight inches below the back of your neckthis isgoing to be the tail that appears in some but not all period pictures of turbans. figure 2 shows itfrom behind.]3. Put your left hand against the cloth high up on your head so as to anchor the cloth there.figure 3] In most of these pictures I am wrapping the turban with my right hand often out ofthe picture and holding down parts of it with my left hand. ...
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